If You Could Change One Thing - Madden NFL 12

[bigdoc85]

Commentary / Presentation. It's just awful.

[NikeBlitz]

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Footplanting. And it's a whole new game

[kjcheezhead]

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COMPLETELY RE-VAMPED Defensive/Offensive line interactions. Ideally, these interactions would function in a real-time physics environment where weight, momentum, realistic turn rates, and engaged player movement are king. Defensive linemen that are programmed to actually man gaps instead of looking to engage the offensive linemen at the snap, and polished protection schemes where offensive linemen aren't programmed to only recognize the stock defensive plays, but can actually recognize delayed blitzes, pass off defenders, etc.

You can't have anything close to a true simulation of football if the trenches aren't right, and right now, what's going on in the trenches isn't getting it done.

This. I would take it a step further and just say blocking in general. I'm tired of not being able to really read a block or having my blockers do this to me..

GIFSoup

[DUDERMAN]

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Many people are going with the idea of adding one feature, which I can understand.

I'm going to try and stay true to changing a feature that was in the game. This definitely won't be a popular choice but I'm going choose how the point system worked in superstar mode. It was good in theory but executed very poorly. They need to take a page from NBA 2k11.

[tfctillidie]

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Player awareness of the football.

Nothing's worse than pressing your receivers button and before the ball leaves the QB's hand, all 11 defenders are on a straight line to the precise spot the ball is going to.

Yes, without even leaving the QB's hand, the defenders know the exact freaking trajectory!

[Phobia]

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1) I have to say complete redo of the blocking and line interactions.

2) Close second would be DB and WR interactions. It is lifeless right now.

[BaylorBearBryant]

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Add in the Player-Lock camera for defense.

There's about a million things I would like fixed with Madden, but this one is pretty damn high on my list.

[rudyjuly2]

I totally agree with Phil on this one. Player weight. The way the players move don't come close to real football and I'm really, really tired of the lousy physics engine. That one change would make the game feel so different and fresh.

[ryan36]

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There's so much wrong with the game, I don't know how to say this. Player interactions, I guess.

- Meaning tackles look bad, blocking is bad, momentum and jostling is bad...etc.


Oh and when the game doesn't cue the audio hit sound on a tackle - what I mean by the above is so obvious. A guy gets tapped and look he's hit sticked. A hit should feel like a hit but it doesn't unless I hear the hit.

[Bulls321974]

- blocking (don't count on it)
- tackling (looks cheap)
- commentary (uhum...we shouldn't even call that commentary)
- animations (get rid of these robotic kind of movements, makes the game look terribly arcadish)
- player weight (simply ridiculous right now)
- presentation (hey EA, we're talking next-gen consoles here)

[dukebeatsuncagain]

QB Throw Trajectory.

I want to be able to finesse a pass over a slow LB.

[KingV2k3]

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Head Coach OVR (Franchise Mode):

1) Has too much impact, overriding sliders / settings as his number progresses

2) Progression is too quick...easy to get from (for example) 58 to 100 in one season, making him / you virtually unbeatable with the same settings that were challenging (a few games previous) when he was still at or near default...

I can slider / setting / edit / workaround / house rule the other stuff...but this one is "untouchable" in it's current form...

As one of our compatriots suggested:

Ability to edit coaches in franchise (just like the new player edit system) would be acceptable...

[ANDROMADA 1]

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Remove this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnsCYBqfBq8&feature=player_embedded

.....and then we can discuss further. No excuse for this bad a programing.

[N51_rob]

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The ENTIRE passing game offense and defense.

[The_Balm]

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The engine